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Educational Mismatches and Earnings: Extensions of Occupational Mobility Theory and Evidence of Human Capital Depreciation

Stephen Rubb John F. Welch College of Business, Sacred Heart University, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 135-154 | Published online: 19 Jan 2007

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Valentine Jacobs, Kevin Pineda-Hernández, François Rycx & Mélanie Volral. (2023) Does over-education raise productivity and wages equally? The moderating role of workers’ origin and immigrants’ background. Education Economics 31:6, pages 698-724.
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Marta Pascual-Sáez & Paloma Lanza-Leon. (2023) The mismatch of over-education and earnings in Spain: how big are differences?. Applied Economics 55:46, pages 5369-5383.
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Le Wen, Sholeh A. Maani & Zhi Dong. (2023) Educational job mismatch, job satisfaction, on-the-job training, and employee quit behaviour: a dynamic analytical approach. Applied Economics 0:0, pages 1-22.
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Obbey A. Elamin. (2023) Overeducation wage penalty for university graduates: evidence from the MENA region using machine learning techniques. Middle East Development Journal 15:1, pages 151-188.
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Cecilia Albert, Maria A. Davia & Nuria Legazpe. (2023) Educational mismatch in recent university graduates. The role of labour mobility. Journal of Youth Studies 26:1, pages 113-135.
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Le Wen & Sholeh A. Maani. (2019) Job mismatches and career mobility. Applied Economics 51:10, pages 1010-1024.
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Jing Wang. (2018) Hours underemployment and employee turnover: the moderating role of human resource practices. The International Journal of Human Resource Management 29:9, pages 1565-1587.
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Richa Saxena & Deepti Bhatnagar. (2018) Does distance matter? A study of married Indian women professionals staying away from families to pursue higher studies. Journal of Education and Work 31:2, pages 159-174.
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Philipp Grunau & Marco Pecoraro. (2017) Educational mismatch and promotions to managerial positions: a test of the career mobility theory. Applied Economics 49:12, pages 1226-1240.
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Emilio Congregado, Jesús Iglesias, José María Millán & Concepción Román. (2016) Incidence, effects, dynamics and routes out of overqualification in Europe: a comprehensive analysis distinguishing by employment status. Applied Economics 48:5, pages 411-445.
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Stephen Rubb. (2014) Overeducation and earnings within an occupation: controlling for occupational heterogeneity of nurses. Education Economics 22:3, pages 257-269.
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Stephen Rubb. (2014) Factors influencing the likelihood of overeducation: a bivariate probit with sample selection framework. Education Economics 22:2, pages 181-208.
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Stephen Rubb. (2013) Overeducation, undereducation and asymmetric information in occupational mobility. Applied Economics 45:6, pages 741-751.
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Stephen Rubb. (2009) Over education among older workers: impact on wages and early retirement decisions. Applied Economics Letters 16:16, pages 1621-1626.
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Mariana Olga De Santis, María Cecilia Gáname & Pedro Esteban Moncarz. (2022) The Impact of Overeducation on Wages of Recent Economic Sciences Graduates. Social Indicators Research 163:1, pages 409-445.
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Piero Esposito & Sergio Scicchitano. (2022) Educational mismatch and labour market transitions in Italy: Is there an unemployment trap?. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 61, pages 138-155.
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Mateus Mota dos Santos, Francisca Zilania Mariano, Ronaldo de Albuquerque e Arraes & Celina Santos de Oliveira. (2021) A armadilha da sobreeducação no primeiro emprego: evidências para o Brasil. Estudos Econômicos (São Paulo) 51:3, pages 415-452.
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Philippe Wanner, Marco Pecoraro & Massimiliano Tani. (2021) Does Educational Mismatch Affect Emigration Behaviour?. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Christiane Roller, Christian Rulff & Michael M. Tamminga. (2020) It’s a mismatch! Overeducation and career mobility in Germany. German Economic Review 21:4, pages 493-514.
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Sucharita Ghosh & Emanuele Grassi. (2020) Overeducation and overskilling in the early careers of PhD graduates: Does international migration reduce labour market mismatch?. Papers in Regional Science 99:4, pages 915-944.
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Marco Pecoraro & Philippe Wanner. 2019. Migrants and Expats: The Swiss Migration and Mobility Nexus. Migrants and Expats: The Swiss Migration and Mobility Nexus 161 186 .
Yeasung Jeong, Ayoung Lee & Joonmo Cho. (2018) Educational mismatches and job resolution in South Korea, the USA, and Germany. Asian-Pacific Economic Literature 32:2, pages 95-108.
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Juan Acosta-Ballesteros, María del Pilar Osorno-del Rosal & Olga María Rodríguez-Rodríguez. (2017) Overeducation of Young Workers in Spain: How Much Does the First Job Matter? Social Indicators Research. Social Indicators Research 138:1, pages 109-139.
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Koji Ueno & Alexandra Krause. (2018) Overeducation, perceived career progress, and work satisfaction in young adulthood. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 55, pages 51-62.
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Maike E. Debus & Barbara Körner. (2018) Überqualifizierung im Kontext organisationaler KarrierenOverqualification in the Workplace. Gruppe. Interaktion. Organisation. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Organisationspsychologie (GIO) 49:1, pages 34-41.
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Theo Sparreboom & Alexander Tarvid. (2016) Imbalanced Job Polarization and Skills Mismatch in Europe. Journal for Labour Market Research 49:1, pages 15-42.
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Stijn Baert, Bart Cockx & Dieter Verhaest. (2013) Overeducation at the start of the career: Stepping stone or trap?. Labour Economics 25, pages 123-140.
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Berrin Erdogan, Talya N. Bauer, José María Peiró & Donald M. Truxillo. (2015) Overqualified Employees: Making the Best of a Potentially Bad Situation for Individuals and Organizations. Industrial and Organizational Psychology 4:2, pages 215-232.
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Michael A. Quinn & Stephen Rubb. (2010) Spouse Overeducation and Family Migration: Evidence from the US. Journal of Family and Economic Issues 32:1, pages 36-45.
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Berrin Erdogan & Talya N. Bauer. 2011. Underemployment. Underemployment 215 232 .
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